Mou Mrid tracksite: Early/Lower Cenomanian, Morocco
collected by Belvedere et al. 2011
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Geography
| Country: | Morocco | State/province: | Drâa-Tafilalet | County: | Errachidia |
| Coordinates: | 30.5° North, 4.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 17.7° North, 4.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | wave ripples,fine,quartzose lithified carbonaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "carbonate-cemented layers of fine-grained quartzarenites preserving ripple cross- lamination" | |
| Environment: | lacustrine deltaic indet. |
| Geology comments: "suggestive of a coastal mudflat, a low-energy environment close to the shoreline with local development of sabkhas and marginal ponds of water" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Belvedere et al. | Collection dates: | 2011 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | MMD | ||
| Database number: | 227052 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-08-25 10:28:04 | Last modified: | 2022-08-25 10:28:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-08-25 10:28:04 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 82473. | M. Belvedere, N.-E. Jalil, A. Breda, G. Gattolin, H. Bourget, F. Khaldoune, and G. J. Dyke. 2013. Vertebrate footprints from the Kem Kem beds (Morocco): a novel ichnological approach to faunal reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 383-384:52-58 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |